Oltre la formazione a distanza. Comunicazione e formazione visiva tra scuola e famiglia

Abstract

The emergent state of Covid-19 has had a strong impact in the
field of education, with particular reference to distance learning, so much
so that the uses of digital technology and its applications are now an
essential topic in public and political debate. The implementation of
distance learning, in fact, has necessarily led to a reflection on the
methodological paths that can be applied and tested in the educational
context, where new modes of relationship/interaction, as well as new
stimuli for learning, are among the best practices to be adopted to respond
to the socio-cultural and educational context that is taking shape, also with
reference to doing school. There are many uncertainties linked to the
validity of new digital didactic approaches and to the communicative and
transmissive effectiveness of the contents where the digital skills of
teachers and families and the lack of adequate equipment risk
compromising the objective of effective and inclusive education. Among the
critical issues that have emerged is that of guaranteeing, through the
digital medium, participatory, motivating and engaging teaching for
students, capable of increasing their sense of responsibility for self-learning
and their emotional involvement in interaction. A new educational media
design is called upon to respond to the new digital challenges. How can
educational quality and inclusion be guaranteed through digital
communication, beyond socio-cultural inequalities? How can school digital
capital guarantee new educational planning in the classroom? These are
the main questions of the paper, which will focus on illustrating the communicative strategies of visual storytelling and graphicacy as tools for
democratising digital communication, for sociocultural inclusion and for
reducing sociocultural inequalities, by illustrating the structural framework
and the main actions/strategy of the European Erasmus Plus project CAVE
(Communication and Visual Education in homeschooling).